Rochelle Bard,
Soprano

*McCann Fellow

In May 2007, Rochelle Bard won First Place in Classical Singer Magazine's Annual Competition, and will be featured in a full-length article that will appear in that magazine. As a result of the competition, Ms. Bard also received a lead contract with Sacramento Opera for their 2008 - 2009 season.

Ms. Bard made her Opera San José debut as a principal artist of the resident company in the roles of Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Violetta (La traviata) and Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) during the 2006 - 2007 season. Last season, Ms. Bard was a Studio Artist with Baltimore Opera where she sang the roles of Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) and Giannetta (L’Elisir d’Amore) as well as covered the roles of the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) and Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). Other recent permances include Gilda (Rigoletto) with Cape Cod Opera, Anna Maurant (Street Scene) with Maine Grand Opera, the title role in The Merry Widow with New England Light Opera, Louise (La Vie Parisienne) with Opera Boston, Antonia (The Tales of Hoffman) with Longwood Opera and Cunegonde (Candide) with the New England Conservatory of Music. As a vocal fellow at Tanglewood, Ms. Bard performed a lead role in an acclaimed world premiere opera, Rage d’Amours, commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Bard was recently named a winner in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition, a finalist in the prestigious MacAllister Awards, as well as the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition, the Classical Singer Convention Competition and the New Jersey Verismo Opera Competition. She was also a New England Regional Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards and the winner of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

For more information, please visit Ms. Bard's website: http://www.rochellebard.com/

*Ms. Bard's artist residency is made possible in part by a Fellowship Grant from Jack and Jeanne McCann.